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I. The antebellum and bellum south (beginnings to 1865). Introdution to part I
Antebellum journals and collections of letters
Captivity narratives
Gender issues in the old South
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
The novel
Women's magazines
Caroline Howard Gilman
The Grimké sisters
Louisa S. McCord
Caroline Lee Hentz
Early African American women writers
Southern women writers' response to Uncle Tom's cabin
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Civil War diaries and memoirs
Mary Chesnut
II. The postbellum South (1865-1900). Introduction to part II
The new woman of the
new South
The postbellum novel
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Southern history in the imagination of African American women writers
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Southern women journalists
Southern women humorists
Mary Noailles Murfree
Southern women poets of the Victorian Age
Louisiana writers of the postbellum South
Kate Chopin
Grace King
Anna Julia Cooper
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
III. Renaissance in the South (1900-1960). Introduction to part III
Southern women writers and the beginning of the Renaissance
The modern novel
Gone with the Wind and its influence
Southern women's autobiography
Women writers and the myths of southern womanhood
Re-visioning the southern land
Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Appalachian writers
Southern women writers and social issues
The growing importance of literary circles and mentors
Ellen Glasgow
Julia Peterkin
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Frances Newman
Katherine Anne Porter
Evelyn Scott
Caroline Gordon
Lillian Smith
Zora Neale Hurston
Lillian Hellman
Eudora Welty
Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor
Harper Lee
IV. The contemporary South (1960 to the
present). Introduction to part IV
Myths of southern womanhood in contemporary literature
Southern women writers and the women's movement
Contemporary autobiography and memoir
Contemporary writers and race
Contemporary poetry
Southen women writers in a changing landscape
A second southern renaissance
Margaret Walker
Mary Lee Settle
Elizabeth Spencer
Ellen Douglas
Maya Angelou
Shirley Ann Grau
Doris Betts
Sonia Sanchez
Ellen Gilchrist
Gail Godwin
Bobbie Ann Mason
Anne Tyler
Alice Walker
Rita Mae Brown
Lee Smith
Josephine
Humphreys
Dorothy Allison
Beth Henley
Jayne Anne Phillips
Jill McCorkle
Kaye Gibbons
Afterward: The future of southern women's writing
Appendix: The study of southern women's literature.
Antebellum journals and collections of letters
Captivity narratives
Gender issues in the old South
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
The novel
Women's magazines
Caroline Howard Gilman
The Grimké sisters
Louisa S. McCord
Caroline Lee Hentz
Early African American women writers
Southern women writers' response to Uncle Tom's cabin
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Civil War diaries and memoirs
Mary Chesnut
II. The postbellum South (1865-1900). Introduction to part II
The new woman of the
new South
The postbellum novel
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Southern history in the imagination of African American women writers
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Southern women journalists
Southern women humorists
Mary Noailles Murfree
Southern women poets of the Victorian Age
Louisiana writers of the postbellum South
Kate Chopin
Grace King
Anna Julia Cooper
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
III. Renaissance in the South (1900-1960). Introduction to part III
Southern women writers and the beginning of the Renaissance
The modern novel
Gone with the Wind and its influence
Southern women's autobiography
Women writers and the myths of southern womanhood
Re-visioning the southern land
Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Appalachian writers
Southern women writers and social issues
The growing importance of literary circles and mentors
Ellen Glasgow
Julia Peterkin
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Frances Newman
Katherine Anne Porter
Evelyn Scott
Caroline Gordon
Lillian Smith
Zora Neale Hurston
Lillian Hellman
Eudora Welty
Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor
Harper Lee
IV. The contemporary South (1960 to the
present). Introduction to part IV
Myths of southern womanhood in contemporary literature
Southern women writers and the women's movement
Contemporary autobiography and memoir
Contemporary writers and race
Contemporary poetry
Southen women writers in a changing landscape
A second southern renaissance
Margaret Walker
Mary Lee Settle
Elizabeth Spencer
Ellen Douglas
Maya Angelou
Shirley Ann Grau
Doris Betts
Sonia Sanchez
Ellen Gilchrist
Gail Godwin
Bobbie Ann Mason
Anne Tyler
Alice Walker
Rita Mae Brown
Lee Smith
Josephine
Humphreys
Dorothy Allison
Beth Henley
Jayne Anne Phillips
Jill McCorkle
Kaye Gibbons
Afterward: The future of southern women's writing
Appendix: The study of southern women's literature.